Creative environment

How do we create educational environments that maximize how students harness their creative and problem-solving potential?

There's a good series on iTunesU on this creative problem solving.

Note on Tim Brown on creativity and play: 

• Playfulness open up possibilites
• Adult's self-judgement or fear of criticism kills creativity
• Role play is experimenting with design of a service or social interactions (what is it like to be a fireman)
• Role play act as a tool to teach empathy (camera recording what a patient sees in the hospital)
• Building prototype helps us explain our creation
• Question to reflect: How can we transition children through this play?
• we need TRUST to play, to be creative
• exploration (going for quantity), building (and thinking) with our hands, role play (acting out)